mac carbon vm 3.8.8b5 posted

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Wed Jul 20 08:25:41 UTC 2005


Am 20.07.2005 um 08:18 schrieb Michael van der Gulik:

> John M McIntosh wrote:
>
>> Posted mac vm 3.8.8b5, as mentioned on Saturyday:
>> Under os-x 10.4 carbon applications are throttled to 50 screen   
>> updates per second. Since 3.8.6b2 we flushed the screen 91 times  
>> per  second
>> to make drawing faster and more similar to os-9. However under os- 
>> x  this is too frequent and if the Morphic cache/draw cycle gets  
>> out of  sync which
>> happens occasionally during debugging you get this odd effect  
>> where  the screen redraw takes a minute or two to complete.
>> Also I discovered that I was only flushing the active window, if  
>> you  had multiple host windows or had put the squeak window in  
>> the  background it was
>> possible to lose the last window flush and have the squeak window  
>> not  reflect the squeak screen buffer.
>> This change then flushs each host window every 1/50 of a second.
>> Plus has fix for Croquet, application quits when launching a teapot.
>> Find it at
>> http://homepage.mac.com/johnmci/FileSharing.html
>> or see the following ftp directory for the zip file.
>> ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/
>>
>
> Should this not be on ftp.squeak.org?

It certainly will be. However, that is not the job of the individual  
VM maintainers, but the FTP master's.

- Bert -




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